Varadarajan Venkata Chari (born c. 1952) is an

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and

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, currently teaches macroeconomic theory, public economics, and monetary economics at the

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's College of Liberal Arts. Chari received a

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from the

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in 1974, and was a

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at Union Carbide (India) Limited from 1974 to 1976. Chari then received his M.S. in Economics in 1978 from

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and subsequently followed up with his Ph.D. from

in 1980. His dissertation won him the

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for excellence in economics, an award also won by

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and

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. Chari joined the

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as an

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. In 1986 he moved to the

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. In 1992 he returned to the Kellogg Graduate School of Management and then moved back to

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and the University of Minnesota in the fall of 1994. At the University of Minnesota, Chari has held many titles ranging from Paul Grenzel Land Grant Professor, to Director of the Heller-Hurwicz Economics Institute (2010-2016), and Chair of University of Minnesota's Department of Economics. His research interests are in banking, fiscal and monetary policy and in issues of economic development. He has written extensively on banking crises, exchange rate fluctuations and international capital flows. Additionally, he has held associate editor positions for American Economics Journal (since 2008) and the Journal of Economic Theory (since 1998). Dr. Chari is also a fellow of the Econometric Society since 1999 and recipient of the Census Bureau Research Grant since 2005.

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Chari, V. V. 21st-century American economists Indian emigrants to the United States University of Minnesota faculty Northwestern University faculty Carnegie Mellon University alumni Fellows of the Econometric Society IIT Bombay alumni 1950s births Living people 20th-century Indian economists American academics of Indian descent Indian chemical engineers 20th-century Indian engineers Indian economists